Favourite Places to LEGALLY Buy Anime/Manga - and is Digital an option?
Recently I was trying to track down an anime movie. It's a few years old and was surprisingly hard to get hold of. Admittedly I'm in Gibraltar, so the 3rd party sellers on Amazon wouldn't ship it here (sometimes I wonder where people think Gibraltar is located), and other sites had it only at very high cost. The Blu-Ray was available in places and some local shops could bring the Blu-Ray in but I don't own a Blu-Ray player so that wasn't an option. I would have preferred a digital download but I couldn't find anywhere that offered it in that format.
In the end I found the movie for sale as DVD, at a reasonable price, via Australian site www.madman.com.au in their anime section. Actually seems like a decent site overall, so I might start shopping there if I can't find anywhere better.
Still, it got me wondering what the best places were for Anime/Manga purchases and, most of all, if there is anywhere out there selling anime as a digital download. iTunes offer a limited selection, although we all know the sort of DRM associated with that. Amazon don't have a massive selection either. Are digital downloads of anime a bit of a missing niche right now - or has someone found a corner of the internet where there are actually LEGAL digital downloads available?
Re: Favourite Places to LEGALLY Buy Anime/Manga - and is Digital an option?
YouTube has a reasonable selection of 80-90s stuff. Of course everything on YouTube is legal :)
What's the film you were after?
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Like most of the video content these days, it's gone the way of streaming rather than downloads. I watch a bit on Netflix, and might consider moving to Crunchyroll once we've got through the non-anime content we're interested in. Not sure on downloads though, I got the second series of Sword Art Online from a seller in Indonesia from memory as it hadn't been released globally - ebay special! Even appears to be genuine...
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Re: Favourite Places to LEGALLY Buy Anime/Manga - and is Digital an option?
Re: Favourite Places to LEGALLY Buy Anime/Manga - and is Digital an option?
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Domestic_Ginger
Yeap; youtube:shocked2:
Like I said. I finally found it. And the aim of the thread is really about place to purchase anime/manga, not just watch them.